Deschooling Our Lives
10 best books like Deschooling Our Lives (Matt Hern): The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, The Perfect Wife, Germinal, The Social Contract, My Friend Anna, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, Invitation to a Beheading, How Children Learn, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling, Learning All The Time
| Author | Kate Moore |
The Perfect Wife
| Author | J.P. Delaney |
| ISBN | 1524796743 |
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that...
Germinal
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 0140447423 |
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young...
The Social Contract
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0143037498 |
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for...
My Friend Anna
| Author | Rachel DeLoache Williams |
| ISBN | 1982114096 |
Several weeks ago, this book popped up on my radar by way of Book Riot. I seem to be on a true crime kick lately, so I checked the book out from the cloud library. Although it hardly lives up to the gushing hype, the story...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
| Author | John Taylor Gatto |
Our children are being limited every...
Invitation to a Beheading
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725318 |
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary...
How Children Learn
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201484048 |
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0738206946 |
Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201550911 |
The essence of John Holt's insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children...
How Children Fail
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201484021 |
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0486277984 |
First things first, the reason I found this translation so smooth and entertaining is the language, this is by far the easiest English book I've read.
In the Symposium, Agathon holds a supper with his friends (writers and philosophers) and they all decide to make their devotions...
| Author | Richard H. Pitcairn |
The book that is the definitive guide to a natural lifestyle for dogs and cats is now completely updated and revised--for the first...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 0486275582 |
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
| Author | Salman Khan |
| ISBN | 1619697777 |
Experience and Education
| Author | John Dewey |
| ISBN | 0684838281 |
Revealed
| Author | P.C. Cast |
Drastically altered after her fall at the end of Hidden, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever—and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc on humans, as well as Zoey and her friends....